Florida is an amazing holiday....we went last summer, and 4 years before that....expensive, but genuinely worth every penny.
Think carefully about the villa/hotel debate...we stayed on International Drive in a Hotel complex...Sheraton Vistana Villages, and its superb.
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I think a villa is better if you have loads of kids, or a couple of families going...the hotel is better, imo, if you have 1 or 2 kids as they'll get to meet and play with other kids...plus you get all the activities, life guards at the pools....and im not gonna lie, i love having the room cleaned and beds made for me :-).........im on holiday ffs.
I-Drive is really close to all the parks, no more than 15 mins drive......we went for nearly 3 weeks this time, bought 2 week passes for Disney, and 2 week passes for Universal.....just "activate" one of them a few days after.
You easily need a day per park....you could do more, but you end up rushing everywhere.....we'd head to a park for 9-10am, head home 5-6pm....maybe go back later for the fireworks etc.
Loads of shopping in the Malls,,,,driving in really simple (in fact, i now just want an automatic car...why do we even have gears? :-) )
My 2 were 5 and 11 when we first went....9 and 15 the second time....they enjoyed it much much more the 2nd time, regardless its an amazing holiday....id go every year if i could afford it.
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